Yep.  And learning a lot quickly is difficult, just like climbing a STEEP mountain is more difficult than climbing one that has a more gradual slope.

I used their planning software to lay out my kitchen and THEN visited a store; spent about 40 minutes with a designer there who spotted some under-the-skin issues that needed to be corrected and made sure I had some non-obvious hardware and connectors, eliminated some extra items the planner put into my order, and…

Yes, when I did my kitchen through IKEA (full DIY job) I also priced through a large contractor friend and at THEIR (essentially wholesale) prices I would have still paid nearly double Ikea price for the same kitchen and still been MDF boxes. It was another 40-50% more on top of that to get to plywood construction.

The work camp is only one feature of the campus, they closed the whole thing.

Assimilation is inevitable

You’re assuming they’d go out and hire some newcomer instead of hatching one of the dozens of clones who have been aging along with the queen in a cell, fed by tubes... this is her chance to finally get out into natural daylight for a little while before they all get recycled.

Depending on where the crude is extracted, it may be more efficient to ship it out of country than to process/refine it inside US borders. Likewise, a refinery may have easier access to imported crude than domestic oil.

And maybe they can figure out some way to add a dedicated button to return to the home screen!

Oh I know that hydraulic motors and actuators can be SUPER reliable for long term use, I guess in this instance I’m thinking that since the speed of rotors on a multirotor aircraft needs to be varied constantly, the hydraulic motors speed would be controlled by PWM solenoid valves and those valves seem like they’d…

I’m thinking that with a gas-driven hydraulic pump you’d have to have some valves cycling REALLY quickly to get decent flight stability out of multiple hydraulic motors. Seems like several VERY likely points of failure when those valves start to stick or fail.  I guess if it had at least 5 rotors it would be capable…

I’m betting they are trying to make something like the Amazon delivery drone prototypes that switch from vertical multirotor to winged flight for traveling longer distances, and they’d be using a “glide” mode in that state

It is! I’m just wondering if the passthru holes turn into little whistle tips at 15-20 mph.  If not they could be just what I’ve been waiting for.

Did you get a chance to try them out on a bike?  Active noise passthru and wind noise always seem to be a terrible combo, I’m wondering if the wind whistles through these little earholes or if it’s relatively neutral.

“I’d be fine with a bunch of cheap houses, as long as they’re each custom designed and distinctive and have nice big well-manicured yards, and look like they were built 100 years ago so they fit in to the neighborhood. Why can’t anyone do that?”

Everything about the scale of this show felt wrong. The entire “I’m going to run this city” with a crew of 2 assassins, 4 teenagers, and a couple of pig-men plan never made sense.

I think we would have had a better show if it was just Cobb Vanth back in Boba’s armor doing his thing.

For that matter, Luke trained up in a very short period of time... is he suggesting that because Grogu has a longer life that he’ll take that much longer to learn to be a Jedi? Why can’t he learn just as fast as Luke and then go visit Mando on spring break? The whole argument  makes no sense unless “long-lived” also…

I think I’d be inclined to set up a second “base model” starlink and just run dual-WAN for twice the cost instead of spending 5 times as much for their premium option.

Depends, what’s the towing capacity?  Can he hook up an airstream behind that thing?